A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist whose body was discovered over the weekend in a rolled-up tarp near a state highway, authorities said Thursday. The body of Nicholas Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge, was found Sunday in rural Tangipahoa Parish, which is east of Baton Rouge and north of New Orleans.
On Tuesday, police in Dallas County, Texas, arrested 20-year-old Terryon Thomas, who is known on social media as Mr. Prada, after Baton Rouge police said he fled from them in Abraham's car. Thomas' relationship to the victim and a motive for the killing were unclear as of Thursday morning, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Thomas is charged with second-degree murder and was awaiting extradition From Texas to Louisiana, the news release said. RELATED STORY | 'I'm shooting, and I can't stop': TikTok star accused in double murder takes stand in own defense "At this time, there is no evidence to suggest that Thomas was a client of Abraham," the release said. Online booking records in Dallas County did not list an attorney could be contacted for comment on Thomas' behalf.
Abraham was seen on surveillance video entering Thomas' apartment Saturday morning, according to an arrest warrant from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. He was wearing the same clothing he had on when his body was discovered, the warrant says. Witnesses told investigators that Thomas was seen hours later strug.